Project Programmability and Business Intelligence
This blog focuses on customizations and programming for Project Web App, Project Server, Project Professional and Project Standard. Includes User Interface (UI) customizations, Project Server Interface (PSI) and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Programm
EPM 2007 Test Data Population Tool
Christophe just passed along this information: The EPM 2007 Test Data Population Tool solution...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 11/27/2007
Tied Mode between Timesheet & My Tasks
We have published today an EPM 2007 solution starter that introduces Tied Mode between Timesheet...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 11/15/2007
Local Custom Fields
Introduction This post contains interim documentation for tables in the Published database of a...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 11/12/2007
Check out the Post on Scalable Issues & Risks Report
It seems that somehow I messed up and the post "Scalable Issues & Risks Report" ended up showing...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 10/19/2007
Office Project Server 2007 Developer Training
Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management University (EPMU) is offering a range of new courses...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 10/04/2007
Synchronizing Membership Provider for Project Workspaces
Back on May 17th I posted code that showed how to update the workspace data with the RDB:...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 10/04/2007
Writing and Debugging Event Handlers for Project Server 2007
Another Visual How-to for Project development is published on MSDN: Writing and Debugging Event...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 10/03/2007
Scalable Issues & Risks Report
Introduction Out of the box the Issues & Risks components of Project Server 2007’s collaboration...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 09/28/2007
Visual How To: Creating a Custom Web Parts for Project Server 2007
We’ve added a “Visual How Tos” section to the online SDK, with the first video: Creating Custom Web...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 09/25/2007
EPMsync Tool Released to CodePlex
Boris Scholl has just passed along this great news: After months of development we have published...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 09/25/2007
Project Conference 2007 is Quickly Approaching
I just wanted to give a quick update about the Project Conference that is coming up at the end of...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 09/13/2007
Improve the Performance of Building the Project Server Data Analysis Cube
Jack Li has passed along a great tip on how to improve the performance of building the Project...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 09/07/2007
Adding a Web Reference Using Visual Studio Orcas Beta 2
Lately I have been playing around with VS Orcas Beta 2; primarily to play around with VSTO support...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 09/05/2007
New Technical Article: "Importing Project 2007 Tasks from Excel Using a Managed Code Add-In"
Jim has just posted a new technical article. Here are some details he sent me: The article...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 08/29/2007
Working with the Custom Fields Data Table
There have been a number of inquiries with regards to the custom field column definitions. So here...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 08/13/2007
Customizing E-Mail for Project Server Notifications
Jim Corbin has written a draft article on how to customize e-mail notifications from Project Server:...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 08/13/2007
VSTO Add-In Support for Project 2003 and Project 2007
I am very excited about the Visual Studio Beta 2 release, as it now has support for Project 2003 and...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 07/30/2007
Checked Out Resources
Phil Smail has this great code snippet for providing better error handling with regards to checked...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 07/27/2007
SDK Update
There is an updated version of the Project SDK: Project 2007 SDK online Project 2007 SDK download...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 07/21/2007
Using ReadCustomFieldsByEntity(...)
Phil Smail, a fellow PM on the Project Team, just passed along a helpful hint: I am writing a cool...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 06/18/2007
Project 2007 Conference Sessions are now available!
The session list for the Project 2007 Conference has been posted to:...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 06/07/2007
Getting at the Task Time Phased Data
I have been asked many times how to get the task time phased data from the PSI. Unfortunately there...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 05/24/2007
Syncing Project Workspaces with the RDB
It has been a while since I have done a blog post, so I figured I would share with you something...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 05/17/2007
Checking Errors
Here is a great recommendation from Jim Corbin: There are two main places to check for configuration...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 04/25/2007
April update of the Project 2007 SDK is now available on MSDN
The April update of the SDK is now available on MSDN. It includes many final versions of articles...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 04/18/2007
Setting the Project Owner
We are currently in the early stages of planning the next version of Project. To help plan out the...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 04/17/2007
Project Conference
I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about the upcoming Project Conference. Details can be...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 04/11/2007
Fearing the Password Expired Message
Since is it common practice for passwords to expire after a set number of days, this can cause a bit...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 03/30/2007
Registering with Events over the next few weeks?
I just want to give everyone a heads up who is developing and registering event handlers for Project...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 03/15/2007
Registering with Project Server Events
As I am sure many of you are aware that Project Server provides an event infrastructure that...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 03/08/2007
Creating a PSI Extension
Overview The Project Server Interface (PSI) is a set of over 20 web services that provide a...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 03/03/2007
Creating Deliverable Reports
I have had many questions with regards to the Deliverables feature and reporting. If your not...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 02/19/2007
Working with Deliverables
The other day I had a request from an internal customer that wanted to create deliverables for a...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 02/18/2007
Adding the Project Programmability RSS Feed to Live
This is a little off topic, but I thought that it might be interesting to some... You can easily add...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 02/14/2007
VBA Event Handler Example
I felt that it is time to give VBA some love. I was surfing Web and came across this post on...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 02/12/2007
Creating a Task Hierarchy
The following questions has been asked: "[...] is there a way to set up the task hierarchy within a...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 02/06/2007
Task Start and Finish Dates
When working with the task start and finish dates via the Project PSI, you might find some strange...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 01/31/2007
Building Web Parts using VS.NET extensions for SharePoint
Mike McDonogh sent us this recommendation: If any of you are planning on building web parts for...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 01/29/2007
Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Schema
When working with Project Server Events, you may need to reference...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 01/17/2007
Agile Custom Project Guide - Second File Attachment
Due to the size of the Zip file, I need to split the file into two. This post has the second file....
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 01/08/2007
Agile Custom Project Guide
In 2003, we released an Agile custom Project Guide, based on MSF for Agile Software Development...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 12/24/2006
Getting your Custom Project Guide to work in Project 2007
Happy Holidays! This post is from Nada Alwarid, a co-worker that is responsible for the project...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 12/24/2006
An Impersonation Web Application
Jim Corbin has passed along this great post: When you impersonate a user in an application for...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 12/20/2006
The MSDN WIKI is available for the Project 2007 SDK
Do you have something you’d like to see added or corrected in the Project 2007 SDK? Now you can add...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 12/19/2006
Adding a Web Reference to the PSI in the RTM Build
With the RTM build of Project Server, you may run into the following issue, where you are unable to...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 12/12/2006
Reporting Database Diagrams
A number of people have asked for entity-relationship diagrams of the Reporting database (RDB) for...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 12/04/2006
Using the Reporting Database and Excel – Part 2
This is a continuation from my previous post. In this post, I will be illustrating how someone can...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 12/01/2006
Using the Reporting Database and Excel – Part 1
I am not sure if this is a programmability post, but there have been many requests to do a post on...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 11/20/2006
The Microsoft Office Project 2007 SDK
The Microsoft Office Project 2007 SDK has been published to MSDN:...
Author: Chris Boyd Date: 11/15/2006
Microsoft Project 2007 Client Developer Help is Now Available Online
Jack Dahlgren on his Project Blog talks about the release of Microsoft Project 2007 client developer...
Author: Alex Sourov Date: 11/14/2006